1SC Stripper Build by Heyfred

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I am out of things to do. In 2 weeks (waiting on new rims to show up for drag radials), will be at the track fine tuning the suspension to see what the ole girl will do.

Today, machined up a spacer for the panhard mount and shortened up the swaybar end links, so it can be adjusted level at ride height.

The spacer may be overkill, but it is cheap insurance to help prevent flexing.

7/20/2012

While out of town, had Tim at Muffler King in Kirkland, build my new catback. One for the track and the other for general use.

Aug 4th the car goes to Tommy Wong to have it dynoed.

Magnaflow muffler setup: 8.5 lbs.
Resonator setup: 6.0 lbs.




The catback that was on the car: 18lbs.

8/5/2012

Car is ready for the strip.

New wheels came in to mount the drag radials on.



Back seat area carpeting is done.





Suspension and shocks set at baseline.





Car was driven round trip, 450 miles from Seattle down to Vancouver, WA. to Tommy Wongs shop. He tweaked the tune, car runs great. Going down, bumper to bumper traffic, 19mpg, coming back with no traffic, 24mpg. Temp stayed rock solid 180deg in stop and go traffic.

8/11/2012

Good night at the strip, car went faster and left well. Had top local driver run the car down the strip, Randy Johnson. http://www.championraceway.com/2011/...%20johnson.jpgRandy gave me great feed back and found out the car needs more rear gear. Only was able to get 2 runs in tonight. Will be going back tomorrow night to race with Randy at the wheel.



Thanks to Shawn (WS699) we have a video of our saturday night.

Went 3 rounds with Randy Johnson behind the wheel before getting eliminated in a double breakout. Car was consistant cutting 1.53X 60ft and 11.8X ET

We now have a good baseline, so next time out, I need to make a small change and see if it helps



8/19/2012

Making several changes so we can run the car again next weekend.

8/24/2012

Car is back together and ready to go racing tomorrow night. Should pick up ET, 60ft and mph with the spring and rear gear changes. Randy will be at wheel.

8/26/2012

Randy cut an .000 light first pass with the suspension changes and was given a momento for doing so.



The car slowed down the with the gear change. Going to have to make some decisions over the winter on which direction to go with.

*Keep current 243 heads, LS6 intake manifold, change rear gear to what works well and be a consistant 11.7 car.
Or
*Replace intake and heads to pick up some hp/tq.
Or
*Replace entire engine with LS3 based 416.

The car is put away, till I make a decision on which direction to go.



Quote:
Why not drive your own car?
I need to see what the car is doing to learn setup and my plans (dream)for the future are bigger than what you see. It will be a team effort.